Posts under ‘General’

Wow, if this is real, this guy has a real future in the NBA.
(Or maybe NASA.)

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Time flies when you’re having fun.
It’s trite, but true. In fact, it flies even when you’re not having fun…
Five years ago today, at around this time, give or take, I arrived in Japan for the first time. I came here to satisfy my curiosity, and to see where life would take [...]

Update: I will not be moving to wordpress.com. Please continue to visit this site.
Please update your bookmarks. Effective immediately, I am moving this site, and all its contents, to its new home at http://thewayfarerblog.wordpress.com/.

As you may recall, I originally began The Wayfarer Blog on blogger.com. (Unfortunately, the first few posts I put [...]

I’ve gone almost four months without posting. That is a lifetime for a blog!
I have a lot to say, and many pictures to post, but when I got back online, I discovered that my Flickr Pro account had expired. The free version is still up, but that only allows access [...]

I’m back.
Sorry for the long absence. Getting my internet hooked up took a lot longer than expected.
Generally, it should only take a couple weeks, but I had many problems. The biggest one was scheduling–I had to be home when the people could come and install the new high-speed wires. Unfortunately, [...]

Well, I made it back to Tokyo, but I need to change my internet provider. The good news is that it will be much faster, and for less money. But the bad news is that it might take about three weeks to get it installed. So I will obviously not be able [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I got busy, then had some internet issues before I left, so I didn’t have time to update the blog and let you know I would be in China. Right now, I am in Beijing. (More on that later.)
I have taken a lot of pictures, so [...]

Today, I went to a school I had never been to before, but I didn’t have to. To make a long story short, I was supposed to go to the school yesterday and today, but the schedule was changed. The person at my company who handles scheduling said he had emailed me [...]

Wow. A week’s gone by, and I haven’t really had anything exciting to report. Well, “no news is good news,” I guess. I have been busy with a lot of (boring) stuff; final exams at my high school, preparing the syllabus for next year’s classes at my college, etc. I [...]

Interesting BusinessWeek article about how Google is racing to catch up to the mobile phone market in Japan.
Japan: Google’s Real-Life Lab:
Japan’s handset-toting masses, it seems, have a lot to teach the Net giant. The country has become a vast lab for Google as it tries to refine mobile search technology. That’s because Japan’s 100 [...]